Inequality: A Broad Middle Class Requires Empowering Workers

On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra day off. But this Labor Day arrives with working families struggling to stay afloat. Working family incomes haven’t gone up in the 21st century. Inequality reaches new extremes. Corporate profits are reaping a record portion of the nation’s income, while worker wages wallow at record lows. Three-fourths of Americans fear their children will fare less well than they have. This Labor Day, we should do more than celebrate workers – we should… Read more…

The Trump Crime Family

THE RIGHT-WING SHADOW GOVERNMENT — Illegal Covert Operations and Right-Wing Subversion of the Constitution

Offshore Tax Havens and Tax Dodging

Wealth Inequality — How Bad is It Really?

The Richest One Percent at its Worst

To see how the billionaire Koch brothers are trying to buy American democracy click here.

Trickle Down Economics, Voodoo Economics, Supply Side Economics — Whatever You Call It, It’s Been a Boon to the Richest One Percent and a Disaster for Everyone Else

"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.

Right-Wing Think Tanks

Billionaires like Charles and David Koch are funding far-right think tanks that produce highly flawed studies promoting policies that favor the richest one percent. For more on what the billionaires are up to click here.